The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.

NEWS IN BRIEF.
Gail Hamilton has temporarily
INJURED her eyesight from over reading.
"A mar In Iowa, Mich, has a tur-
Key which has been trained to draw a
sled.
Harvard g gymnasium cost Sl1O,-
300, Yale's $125, 600 and Columbia's
6156, 600.
Miss Ellen X. Abbott Is teaching her
Jeventy.third term Of school at Web
'ter, n. II.
There are five young women en-
rolled in the Law Department OF the
Michigan University.
The Duke of Sutherland is re-
ported to be about to purchase a tract
Of Il $1,000 acres in Florida.
"A new safety envelope has been
invented that cannot be tempered with
without its being known.
-Arkansas hopes soon to become
The source of the coal supply Of the
Trans-M Mississippi section.
Wood grows faster in New Hamp-
hire than it is burned, and the price Is
IS low as anyone could ask.
-Marmalade and cold chicken is the
newest wrinkle of some of the epicurean
members OF fashionable clubs.
Six towns in a single (Windham)
county Of Vermont, have elected wo-
men as superintendent Of schools.
"A New York lady gave the baker
Of an Atlantic City hotel $50 for his
receipt for making delicious mullins.
Some Iunatic writes to the papers
recommending sea biscuit, soaked in
port wine, as good for consumptlyes."
"A "iubllee CONN" is being adver-
tised in London. a "jubilee drink
lad previously made its appearance.
-Ex-President Hayes has quite re-
severed his health, and now takes long
walks, accompanied by his devoted
wife.
"A woman who counts her children
20 the number of %, it is stated, has
been pensloned by the Mexican Gov
eminent.
-"The Times" of Plttsburg, esti'
mates that fifty million dollars + In
vested IN natural g4s plants in this
State.
--In the sentence of death pro-
aounced upon Charles l., he was con-
lemned as "a tyrant, murderer and
public enemy"
More than 5000. 000. 900 pounds of
lsh were brought to the wharves Of
Portsmouth, N. H., during the past
winter this season. -
The police of Berlin have forbidden
the sale of a pamphlet Issued by a So
cialIstic society in Chicago. in denun-
citation of the anarchists trial.
Fifty beeyes and one hundred
lambs were roasted and eaten at the
barbecue of the National Butchers AS
ISOLATION in Chicago recently.
Tobacco manufacturers, a trade
journal states, say that ''chewing is
rapidly becoming as obsolete as snuff
taking, except among workmen."
Dion Boucicault is said to have
written his name Bourclcault for many
years, and until pretty much every
body else dropped the ST" out of 1t.
John Tyler, son of President
Tyler, has for the ninth time been
elected Grand Worthy Patriarch of the
Sons Of Temperance Of the State Of
Virginia. 4
One Presque Isle man planted peas
the first week In May on a piece of
of ground that was covered with six
inches of snow "a hours before the
planting.
AT a typewriter contest in New
York this week one contestant, Miss
NJ. c. Grant, is said to have written
1884 words in four minutes and forty
two seconds.
After much negotiation the banks
in the Australian colonies, other than
Queensland, have agreed to reduce the
interest payable on fixed deposits to
five per cent.
The great Lick telescope, San
Francisco papers fear, cannot be got
ready for use by the LIST of July, as had
been anticipated, but will be much be-
hind that time.
Amateur mesmerists put a boy to
sleep in POughkeepsie, N. Y, not long
ago and left HIM in 1t, being unable to
awaken him. a weeks illness from
nervous p%rostration was the result.
The Brush Company, which now
Is lighting part Of New York's streets
with electric lamps at 70 cents each
per night, offers to continue under a
new contract at 20 cents.
"A Vermont boy learned to AXE
cider brandy in his mothers teapot
from the information concerning the
physiological effects Of alcohol" con-
tanned In II of his obligatory text
books.
-Petriied Holsters, clans, turtles
and the like are found quite frequently,
1t Is asserted, in the Santa Catalina
Mountains, In Arizona, at "a height Of
nearly 10000 feet above the level of
the sea
MANY American ladies in London
are said to be unable TO find ready
made shoes there small enough to At
them, the average of the American be-
ing greatly below the average English
foot in size.
"A violent storm of wind and rain
broke over Wilmington. Delaware, at
twenty minutes before l O'Clock on the
morning of the 22d, u~prooting trees
and unrooflng buildings. AT Ban
croft's Banks, just beyond the city
limits, a big oak tree fell on a double
frame dwelling, crushing in the roof
and killing three of the occupants,
Mrs. James Noble, Mrs. George Doran.
and Mrs. Doran's little boy. Mr..
Mobiles two-months-old baby, in bed
with its mother, was extricated from
the crushed timbers and may live. A
storm at ~Lynchburg, Virginia, on the
evening of the 2lst, blew down trees
and fences and did other damage. Dur
ing a storm at Fair Play, Pamela
county, Texas, on the 22d, a tree was
blown down and crushed a house, kill
ing Mrs, Albert lite and her two
children.